Where did the night go?

It’s suddenly daylight outside again. Which fits in nicely, as the light summer nights was one of the things I had intended to tell you about. To the very far north, past the polar circle, of course, we have the midnight sun, which is all very spectacular. However, the consequences of this is that further south the ‘night’ in the middle of summer is basically a sunset that turns into a sunrise, the sun just dipping below the horizon and no chance for darkness to set in. It’s later in the summer now, so it goes almost dark for a few hours, but you hardly notice it normally – I don’t make a habit of being awake at this time of the morning, either.